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5y ago
It is a specific technical detail of how ERC-20 tokens work. Your wife/brother/kids etc make transfers online from their bank account without knowing the technical details of how that transfer works. Ideally wallets would have bet
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5y ago
Their completion doesn't take a cut; you only have to pay blockchain gas fees.
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5y ago
You contacting the plasma would cause it to collapse, but you would already by cooked. It's a chicken and egg question, because a plasma is never going to get started with a person inside; it needs a near perfect vacuum.
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5y ago
In most of the US opening a heliport is incredibly simple; take your parking lot or other land and paint some markings on the ground. Shoot off a letter to the FAA. Done. That said, rotor-craft are not even required to land at a heliport; t
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5y ago
China has hundreds of millions of people living in '15 minute cities'. You can still get out and explore with public transport that will take you literally anywhere in the country faster than driving.
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5y ago
Chrome/Chromium. Much has been said about the negatives of homogenization of the browser space, but the advantages are tangible; the web just works in Chrome, more than with any other browser engine.
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5y ago
So ridiculous. Is private rail so dysfunctional that it actually makes sense to buy battery-electric locomotives in the US instead of installing overhead wires?
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5y ago
It's GLTF but with custom extensions.
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5y ago
3DS Max. It has bugs that have been unfixed for 20 years ... I make models for Microsoft Flight Simulator where it is the only software that can export models correctly; there is an unsupported Blender exporter, but I'm not enthusiast
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5y ago
Did you know it's actually C++? You would never guess from the Arduino docs/examples; it's all written for kids so it can feel like you are actually writing some super simplified C like scripting language like PAWN.
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5y ago
Hah, that's cute. They must have also hired some police officers to drive them; visited last summer on my boat and the island was run by a couple of mobsters on one of the other yachts moored there. Hadn't been any cops on the isl
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5y ago
The flames make it go faster, right?
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5y ago
NoPixel, and GTARP in general are fundamentally flawed because they enforce game design objectives through community rules instead of through game design itself. It works ok for streaming, because you have a small group of paid actors who m
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5y ago
Not a week has gone by without a news article about some 'leak' for this game over the last 10 years, yet all of it has been bullshit. Many people have built careers speculating on it.
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Glorified electric golf carts for all
(vice.com)
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5y ago
You pretty much described VRChat, but it's off-putting because for some reason everyone's avatar is a furry or sexualized anime child.
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He only target external facing sites, so no doctors were affected.
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5y ago
Lisp has been around since before you were born. If the majority of programmers as are still not comfortable with the language after that long, despite having learnt it in college, it suggests the language is fundamentally flawed. Imagine a
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Researchers use GPU fingerprinting to track users online
(bleepingcomputer.com)
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5y ago
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477 mile long lightning bolt crossed three US states
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We have evidence of life on Mars from the Viking landers, we just ignored it because it's inconvenient.
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WeChat has a feature named "message in a bottle". It functions much like you would expect; you can send a message to a random user or recieve one.
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There are plenty of areas where the charts are woefully inaccurate, not updated since they were originally charted by the empires 150+ years ago. An often repeated fact is 'we know more about the surface of the moon than the bottom of
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Proponents of this theory consider the Great Sphinx as one the best bits of evidence for it precisely because there is not a a single contemporary inscription attributing its construction to Egypt/Khafre.
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5y ago
Personally I think Hancock et. al. go too far, jumping to the lost civilization theory. However I also think the egyptologists are too conservative. The first thing anyone notices when they look at the Great Sphinx is that the head is too s
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Not sure where you got that idea. Dragon predates Windows and has always used its own models. It works very well for some people; many have written books with it.
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Development of a lithium-air battery with an energy density over 500 wh/kg
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Really obnoxious web design there; why would I want an auto playing video of unrelated celebrity dribble that you can't close and sticks in place as you scroll covering 1/3rd of the screen?
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Yes, the New York Times has been paywalled for the last 10 years. What's your point?
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$30k for a Kitfox, doesn't include an engine or avionics which is another 40k or more. You will be 3+ years on the waiting list to get your hands on the kit, then spend 1000+ hours building it. 2nd hand Kitfoxes have not been available
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